Fishing Resort on Wii. You can level up your skill and fast travel. Is it an RPG? No.

San Andreas has all kinds of RPG tropes, way more than I care to name, is it an RPG? No. I don't recall anyone ever saying how they had to grind their machine gun skill up.

Neither is any Zelda game.

Mario Golf on GBC is heavy on RPG elements. Its a sports game, not an RPG.---"I'm saying people outside GameFAQs didn't care when Mega Man Legends 3 was cancelled." horror_spooky3DS FC: 1977-1514-4983, PM if you add me

And Bioshock. And Castlevania Lament of Innocence. And Dissidia. And Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3. And many RPGs don't allow customizable abilities, like FF IV (I hear you can in the DS version but not the original), Shadow Hearts, or Grandia 2.